После появления новости, получившей большое обсуждение, связанная с намерениями разработчика добавить игру в Steam, стало известно о релизе новой версии CS2D спустя чуть менее года с момента релиза предыдущего. Главным изменением в этой версии многие игроки посчитали обновленную 3D-графику, включить которую можно в настройках игры. Полный список изменений (на английском языке) предоставлен ниже.

 Main menu music kept playing when game server was started with commandline parameters
 Game no longer crashes when running a Lua script without a mod.txt
 Newlines (\n) printed to the console are processed properly (replaced with a whitespace character)
 You were able to spawn/equip items with bad type IDs, leading to weird results
 sv_restart/restart/sv_restartround/restartround caused unjustified and misleading console error output in some cases
 Env_Light offset did not always work correctly
 Game crashed when making lights with a size > 256 (size is now limited to 256)
 Mouse pointer was invisible when opening any menu while in weapon scope/zoom mode
 Crash when tabbing-out from full-screen application (DirectX)
 Crash when minimizing application window (DirectX)
 Same file will not be sent multiple times anymore if added multiple times to sys/servertransfer.lst
 Memory leak in Lua hooks
 Right handed player skins
 Crash when loading smaller tileset in map editor while map is using TileFX entity
 Map briefing and server info was unloaded when switching language in-game
 Bots didn't spawn in some non-standard game modes in some special cases
 Dropped item mouseover is now sorted depending on the item type and price
 Game will always try to load files with the original extension first before trying alternative extensions
 hudtxt/hudtxt2 network data is now sent in separate packages to prevent connection loss on many calls
 arial.ttf replaced with free liberationsans.ttf for licensing reasons
 Standard resolution is now 16:9 (850x480 as minimum) instead of 4:3 (640x480)
 Horizontal borders appear when using 4:3 resolutions (640*480, 800*600, 1024*768 and etc.)
 A lot of performance improvements (loading maps/game initialization/map drawing/map export)
 Loading now happens during intro screen with visible loading bar
 Trigger_Delay entity now also works with float values for delays with millisecond precision
 More steps of joining a server are now described properly with text output
 Console command "entities" now also shows the used resources (image/sound) if there are any
 Replaced red crosses on items with green crosses because the red cross is a protected symbol
 mp_dispenser_money now defaults to 500 instead of 100
 screen_quality now defaults to 100 instead of 75
 Better player, hostages and npc shadows
 Buying menu shows spinning 3D weapons
 Burst mode shoots separate bullets (mp_recoil enabled)
 Pistol no longer shoots multiple rounds when attack key is hold (mp_recoil enabled)
 Lua sample script "hudtxt.lua" now uses dynamic variable values for the positions
 Improved flashbang and flare particle effects
 Editor and main menu use the full resolution
 Some windows like console and serverlist use the full resolution
 UTF-8 chat messages support (to allow users to chat in more languages)
 More color codes for dropped item mouseover (dark yellow = secondary weapon, orange = grenades, green = equipment)
 More detailed error message when CS2D fails to load animated multi frame images because of bad image dimensions
 reqcld mode 5 (mod info) and mode 6 (is 3D rendering enabled?)
 Script command spawnitem now also accepts item names instead of type IDs only (like equip and strip)
 Experimental 3D rendering mode (settings command: render3d)
 Tiles now have a 3D height parameter in the tile properties menu
 Tiles now have flipY and mirror drawing modes for 3D
 Capability to automatically convert old maps to 3D versions
 Env_Sprite & Env_Image now have a 3D height parameter
 New Env_Cube3D entity allowing to place 3D cubes in the map
 Experimental dynamic recoil & crosshair (settings command: mp_recoil)
 Dynamic recoil crosshair settings (ch_red, ch_green, ch_blue, ch_size, ch_thickness, ch_bordersize)
 New editor display option to either use full resolution or to show gameplay view
 Editor now automatically saves the current map as "autosave.map" every 3 minutes
 Hovering an entity in the editor now also shows its name and trigger
 Trigger_If now has some parameterized conditions which can be used in the editor without Lua scripting
 Some weapon values can now be configured over a new config (sys/weapons.cfg)
 Command loadweaponcfg (reloads weapon config from sys/weapons.cfg at runtime, server only)
 Command mp_hudscale (sets the scale/position mode for Lua HUD images and hudtxt/hudtxt2)
 HD loading support for CT, T, VIP, random player and zombies images
 HD loading support for hud symbols and numbers
 HD loading support for player weapons and dropped weapons
 Maps: de_dust2_new, de_aztec_new, de_cs2d_new, fy_shipment, de_cbble_new, de_inferno_new
 Lua commmand "player" now has "screenw" and "screenh" parameters to get the CS2D screen resolution of a player
 Lua sample script "hudimg.lua" which shows how to create and position HUD images
 Lua sample script "imghover.lua" which shows a HUD image which reacts on mouseover
 New spark particle effects when hitting walls / tactical shield (only with max particle settings)
 New muzzle flash effects
 Visual frame selection for Env_Decal in the editor
 Decal painting tool in map editor (hotkey: 5)
 Console message when screenshot was taken successfully
 New advanced detail radar (showing the map with actual map graphics in the radar)
 Console command "debug" mode 2 - Profiler: shows detailed information about application performance
 Progress bar is displayed when loading map
 Progress bar is displayed when exporting map
 Commands shadowz_wall and shadowz_obstacle are now deprecated as each tile has a defined height
 Some old/unused assets

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